1,204 prompts matching "Reduce a 500-word passage to an exact word limit"
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Practise: sorting verbs into regular and irregular groups
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a list of verbs drawn from a story about a birthda
Discuss: how a report and an expository piece target their audience
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short newspaper report and a short expository pi
Discuss: interpreting a prose passage together
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short prose extract and discuss with me its sett
Teach me: why and how to summarise a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me why summarising is a useful skill, and show me th
Teach me: the format and tone of an informal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the format of an informal letter — address, salut
Writing task: an informal letter to a friend
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write an informal letter to a fr
Writing task: a short story with a clear problem and setting
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a short story with a clear
Teach me: the format and tone of a formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the format of a formal letter — address and date,
Teach me: the format and tone of a semi-formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me who a semi-formal letter is written to, its typic
Teach me: how to plan and deliver a short speech
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to plan a short speech, including choosing a
Teach me: common English collocations to avoid word-for-word mistakes
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me common collocations such as 'a burning desire', '
Quiz me: mood and tone across short paragraphs
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a few short paragraphs with different moods and to
Teach me: what to scan for in a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between scanning and other reading
Teach me: the difference between biography and autobiography
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between a biography and an autobio
Teach me: writing an informal letter with the right tone
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to keep the tone of an informal letter relaxe
Teach me: writing a semi-formal letter with balanced tone
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to write a semi-formal letter, balancing a re
Teach me: writing an expository essay using facts
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how expository writing uses facts rather than opi
Writing task: an expository essay on a factual topic
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a short expository essay o
Teach me: intonation in questions and question tags
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how intonation differs between ordinary questions
Help me practise: saying questions and tag questions with the right intonation
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise saying a set of ordinary questions and ta